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 Glossary of People: Pa
Pashukanis's General Theory of Law and Marxism was banned in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist uprising of the 1930s, and would not be again published in the USSR until 1982 (though he was "rehabilitated" in 1956 by the RSFSR Supreme Court).
Palm was born the son of a school teacher, near Malmö in the Swedish province of Skåne.
Pashukanis soon became the Director of the national Institute of State, Law, and Soviet Construction (it would be renamed several times).
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/p/a.htm

  
 Socialist Action - the greatest defeats?
What we do support is the struggle for bourgeois democratic rights - freedom of association, a free press, the rule of law.
"T he [British left has] a duty as elementary as not crossing a picket line, to side with, champion, and defend the workers in the Stalinist states.
T he struggle for political and civil liberties, in Russia, in August 1991, meant taking action against the Russian CP.
http://archive.workersliberty.org/publications/readings/trots/socaction.html

  
 The "Russian Question" Remains
Foster and Lovestone made the requisite pilgrimages to the Stalinist basilica in Moscow, each to plead his case before a court of Comintern Cardinals with the participation of the Pontiff, Josef Stalin.
The circumstances surrounding Browder's Fall and Foster's Coronation were the nadir of American Communism, when the Party was most starkly exposed as an unadorned prototypical Stalinist movement.
Of the 54 members of the Central Committee there was just one vote for his position -- his own.
http://www.wpunj.edu/icip/newpol/issue18/jacobs18.htm

  
 A Balance Sheet of the USFI’s Intervention into the
After leaving the ISG just before the last World Congress, the former F1 comrades worked closely with Scargill,   an unreconstructed Stalinist and leader of the defeated 1984 miners’ strike, to establish the new party.
This position received very little support at the conference and the ISG established its sectarian position towards the party.
One of the former F1 comrades became the National Secretary of the SLP and others were elected to the leading bodies of the party on Scargill’s slate.
http://www.ito.gn.apc.org/A_Balance_Sheet_of_the_SLP.htm

  
 Left and Vietnam War
The Stalinist left believed that a small number of 'monopolies' or 'wealthy families' were opposed to the common interests of other classes in Australia.
Also B. Taft, Victorian President of the CPA, 'Debate in the Anti-war Movement' Australian Left Review May 1971 pp.
It was not this, but rather his encouragement of mass political activity that distinguished his position from Whitlam's.
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/interventions/leftvietnam.htm

  
 The Communist Party in Australian lifet
It has three or four significant themes, one of which is that Communists in unions should develop shop committees vigorously.
Eventually the strike was settled, the Stalinists were defeated, Origlass was reinstated as delegate and the rebels re-established control of the Balmain Branch.
The battles for control between the right and the left proceeded in unions, state Labor councils, state Labor Party conferences and branches, and shop stewards' committees.
http://members.optushome.com.au/spainter/CPA.html

  
 Power Line
Labor is moribund on the left, and the most vigorous alternatives to Likud are on that party's right.
This column by Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post on the upcoming Israeli elections demonstrates the usual Post bias in favor of the Labor Party and its peacenik candidate.
The reality of Israeli politics is that most Knesset seats are held by various "splinter" parties of the left or right, secular or religious.
http://www.powerline.blogspot.com/2003_01_01_powerline_archive.html

  
 Theories of Stalinism's Collapse
The essential core of the state power -- its military, police and judicial arms -- were purged and re-purged until all vestiges of Bolshevism were erased.
The “orthodox Trotskyists,” led by Mandel of the United Secretariat tendency (USec), regarded the Stalinist states as progressive with respect to capitalism.
If the Stalinist states had been workers’ states, however deformed, overthrowing them had to mean smashing the state apparatus.
http://www.lrp-cofi.org/PR/StalinismPR65.html

  
 fin-arkiv
This resolution was passed at the 14th World Congress of the Fourth International in 1995 (80.5 percent of delegates voted in favour, 16.5 percent against, and 3 percent abstained).
Over 10 percent of those who voted in the first round backed revolutionary candidates.
The immediate political impact of this world-historical upheaval on the left was negative, even for those political currents that had opposed Stalinism from the social democratic right or the revolutionary left.
http://www.fin-arkiv.blogspot.com/2002_06_30_fin-arkiv_archive.html

  
 Leon Sedov-red book—chapter9
This was the situation which surrounded the former leaders of the Left Opposition who had split from it.
This state of mind, be it said in passing, had at that time seized the majority of the party.
the group of old left Stalinists — Lominadze-Shatskin-Sten (those who were called the "leftists"); of Smirnov and his friends, and also of some rightists, Riutin, Slepkov, and others.
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/sedov/works/red/ch09.htm

  
 What we say: The man who told unpalatable truths: George Orwell and today's l Workers' Liberty
In Orwell’s case, the pattern is not too far from what the Irish socialist-republican James Connolly wrote of the pioneer Republican Wolfe Tone on the centenary of the Republican rising of 1798 in which Tone lost his life: “Apostles of freedom are ever crucified when living, and idolised when safely dead”.
These “anti-fascists” suppressed the workers who had seized power in Catalonia and set up a Stalinist-bourgeois police state in the anti-fascist Republican areas.
This was the time of the Popular Fronts, when the Communist Parties sought allies on the right.
http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/1070

  
 Levy/Lahr: Review - New York Intellectuals
The Moscow Trials and the Spanish Civil War acted as both a detonator and educator of my political development.
Robeson was one of the most vociferous denunciators of Trotskyism, supporting the imprisonment during the Second World War of the Trotskyists under the Smith Act.
Trotsky was now writing about the Moscow Trials, and, as he held a special appeal for radicalised literati which stemmed from his literary, historical and polemical achievements, left wing intellectuals increasingly became associated with the Partisan Review.
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol2/no2/wald.html

  
 TROTSKYIST BULLETIN NO. 8 - AFGHANISTAN & THE LEFT
This mood simultaneously found external political expression when the New York contingent in the SL’s 1982 anti-Klan demonstration in Washington chose to call itself the “Yuri Andropov Brigade,” after the Stalinist butcher of the Hungarian Revolution.
The fundamental contradiction of the deformed and degenerated workers states is between the social base of the collectivized economies and the Stalinists’; paralyzing monopoly of political decision-making which introduces all kinds of distortions and irrationalities into the planning process, and thus constitutes a fetter on economic and social development.
But incipient Stalinophilia is only one manifestation of the SL’s political decline.
http://www.bolshevik.org/TB/tb8_2b_6.html

  
 TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Michael Kelly
Last weekend, the left held large antiwar marches in Washington, San Francisco and elsewhere.
This is whom the left now marches with.
International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is a front group for the communist Workers World Party.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michaelkelly/mk20030122.shtml

  
 Article and Book References/Bibliography
Marxism in the United States: Remapping the History of the American Left 1987
A Long View from the Left: Memoirs of an American Revolutionary 1973
History and the New Left: Madison, Wisconsin 1950-1970 1991
http://www.revolutionintheair.com/bibliobooks.htm

  
 An open letter to Barry York and Gerard Henderson
Barry York skates over the rabid Stalinism of his own Maoist current in the antiwar movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which he retrospectively idealises, and he conflates his own group's role with the whole Vietnam War movement.
The morality and justice of the Iraq war,
Barry York justifies his support for Bush's war in classic Stalinist form, in terms of a "popular front" with George Bush against "Iraqi fascism", and refers us to his fellow Stalinist old mate Albert Langer's website ( Last Superpower.net).
http://members.optushome.com.au/spainter/York.html

  
 Byron York on Antiwar Movement on National Review Online
"The Workers World Party is one of the most obnoxious groups on the far Left," says Stephen Zunes, an associate professor of politics at the University of San Francisco who studies the antiwar movement.
It's got a long — many, many generations of racism and militarism.
For outside observers, the effect of it all was to raise questions about the real nature of the peace movement.
http://www.nationalreview.com/10feb03/york021003.asp

  
 Document Title
Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman
Panel Organizer, Special Session, "Black Writers and Left Politics." MLA Convention.
"Jean Toomer and the Left." Conference, "Working-Class Lives / Working-Class Studies." Youngstown State U. June 1995.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/eng-web/foleyvita.html

  
 Idiot Quotient
Until 1989, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism were taboo in Germany.
Along with his other activities, he is conducting research for his doctoral thesis on German-language Zionist newspapers in the 1930s for the German literature department at the University of Frankfurt.
Syria and a lot of very radical factions in Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and the Gulf states would be affected.
http://www.idiotquotient.blogspot.com/2002_10_06_idiotquotient_archive.html

  
 History & Memory--Collective Memory Divided and Reunited: Mothers, Daughters and the Fascist Experience in Germany
Both countries claimed to be the only legitimate postwar German state: the Federal Republic as the judicially designated successor to the 1871 Bismarckian Reich, and the German Democratic Republic as the systemically "purged" replacement of the Nazi regime.
The links between the Western women's movement and the New Left of the late 1960s promoted a focus on global liberation, that is, from authoritarianism and patriarchy presenting themselves in the guise of monopoly capitalism.
The orthodox-Stalinist Left in the GDR, meanwhile, targeted monopoly capitalism as the root cause of fascism but ignored its own patriarchal tendencies by insisting that socialism had achieved the full emancipation of women.
http://www.iupjournals.org/history/ham11-1.html

  
 UK Indymedia 'Marxist' Grouplet Launches Homophobic Tirade at Gay Activists, Feminists
This week their paper (EPSR issue dated 20 July 2004) launched an attack on most of the rest of what they term 'the fake left'.
The EPSR has previously been criticised for its refusal to condemn international acts of terrorism, which has lead to charges of heartlessness and of applauding reactionary elements of anti-imperialism.
In fact the term ultra-left is a term of abuse within these traditions derived from Lenin (I'm sure it's used as a term of abuse in the SPRS).
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295178.html

  
 Stalinist and Trotskyite Crisis
The fiction therefore is maintained that the bureaucracy is merely a caste or strata, and since that leaves the proletariat as the only class in the Stalinist states, then it must be a proletarian state.
Political structures within Marxism are defined in terms of class: If the Stalinist bureaucracy is admitted to form a class, then the definition of the Soviet state as a proletarian or workers' state would look precarious indeed, given the realities of power.
But this certainly doesn't apply to the Stalinist state where the bourgeoisie has been expropriated and, as Grant himself points out, doesn't even exist.
http://www.redaction.org/open/stalinist.html

  
 Stalinist Murder Spree in the Philippines
As a result of his party being placed on the FTO list, his bank accounts have been frozen, his state subsidies from the municipal government have been stopped, and his status as a “political refugee” has been removed.
The Fourth International, who had one of its own supporters murdered by the CPP back in 2001, loudly denounced the recent murders at their World Congress held earlier this year.
The CPP also stands accused by the Filipino Workers Party (PMP) of murdering one of its leaders, Filemon Lagman, who left the CPP in 1991.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/941990/posts

  
 BBC's neo-Stalinist agitprop that defends the Cambridge Five
Why the left support the BBC's neo-Stalinist agitprop that defends treason
Watson's ignorance and his indifference to the crimes of this squalid band of traitors draws attention to the extraordinary support that these Stalinists still derive from prominent leftists like Philip Adams.
Tony Watson inadvertently summed up the political and historical illiteracy of his media colleagues when he asserted that this band of traitors were driven as much by "their fierce anti-fascist leanings, as they were by the romanticism of communism" (the Age television lift-out, 15-21/6/03)
http://www.brookesnews.com/030407adams.html

  
 An analysis of the 1995 Draft Programme of the CPGB
This question is not solely about the defence of the actual physical workers states.
This contradiction is rooted in the CPGB& Stalinist methodology in equating ‘socialism’ with the workers state, which is a weapon in the world revolution, without which there will be no socialism, anywhere.
This is the classic British left position on Ireland, and for a tendency that talks so much about "democracy", takes no account of the hardened and consolidated communal divisions in the population of Ireland.
http://members.aol.com/RevolutionTruth/cpgbcrit.htm

  
 Interactivist Info Exchange Salim Muwakkil, "Pro-War Progressives and the Anti-Stalinist Left"
Salim Muwakkil, "Pro-War Progressives and the Anti-Stalinist Left"
But several others, including comedian/commentator Dennis Miller, said they too were shocked rightward by the left's reflexive, "blame-America" reaction to 9/11.
Many left-leaning commentators were so disconcerted by some of their fellow travelers' responses to the attacks, they jumped straight into bed with the neocon war party.
http://slash.autonomedia.org/analysis/03/05/15/1645211.shtml

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Chomsky’s Smear of Horowitz an Expected Disgrace by Jamie Glazov
Horowitz has perceived that the roots of the New Left, in which Chomsky has his feet solidly planted, are the same ones shared by the Stalinist Old Left.
Chomsky calls Horowitz a former Stalinist, but he knows full well that while Horowitz’s parents were Stalinists, Horowitz himself was never one.
Eric Alterman’s "review" of Horowitz’s The Politics of Bad Faith in The Nation on November 16, 1998 was especially illuminating in this regard.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=239

  
 AddALL.com - New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930'2 to the 1980's
New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930'2 to the 1980's
AddALL.com - New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930'2 to the 1980's
It is enriched by more than one hundred personal interviews as well as critical interpretations of novels and short stories depicting the inner life of the group.
http://www.addall.com/detail/0807841692.html

  
 14 August 2003 archive
Detailed study of the origins of the neocons in the CIA / Foundation-funded anti-Stalinist left in the early Cold War era, from the perspective of the Old Right / libertarians, who have lately been strongly critiquing the neocons.
"Newsmax is to the Right what the Nation is the Left, controlled opposition, never giving you more than half the truth.
It’s like a puppet show for the most part, nobody thinking for themselves or really wanting to face the facts objectively.
http://www.questionsquestions.net/topics/archive/updates/030814.html

  
 Geometry.Net - Philosophers: Zizek Slavoj
A mix of witless cultural commentary, political ignorance of staggering proportions, human insensitivity, anti-American prejudice, and a pandering to the gallery of the cultural "left", an audience that functions now only to reproduce the sophistry of the old Stalinist left using "Theory" instead of party catechism.
Zizek's document is reproduced here, interposed with comments I have made.
It leaves one wondering whether, with intellectuals like Zizek taking up so much of the stage, is there any room left for a "center left" that does not spend its time sitting in front of a screen analyzing B-grade Hollywood movies and making fatuous moralizing pronouncements about the world?
http://www.988.com/philosophers/zizek_slavoj.php

  
 Left Stalinist
With hundreds of writers, it should not be very long at all.
We're working hard to make this page ( Left Stalinist) live.
http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/l/e/Left_Stalinist.html

  
 HRP Research Guide: Chapter Two, Secs. I - III
Summaries of newspaper articles and other items from wire services, newspapers and radio broadcasts in the region.
It continues this policy of attempting to allow Central and Eastern Europe to speak for itself.
Its major shortcomings are a lack of attention to the non-Stalinist left, and to the voices of workers suffering the effects of the restoration of capitalism in the region.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/hrp/guide/rg2i-iii.html

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